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  • Passing through Resurrection Gate, he turned his back on the lilacs of the Alexander Gardens and proceeded toward Theatre Square, where the Hotel Metropol stood in all its glory.†   (source)
  • Lale runs his hands over the suits and shirts in the closet, both casual and formal, and all the accessories needed to resurrect the Lale of old.†   (source)
  • But tonight, the Gladers ate like dead men resurrected for one last meal before being sent to live with the devil.†   (source)
  • Then a message appeared in the center of my display: RESURRECTION COMPLETE.†   (source)
  • But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected.†   (source)
  • The pre-Christian God Mithras—called the Son of God and the Light of the World—was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days.†   (source)
  • It had a strangely skeletal look about it, as though it were a resurrected wreck, and the dim, misty lights shimmering at its portholes looked like ghostly eyes.†   (source)
  • "You don't care what I do, as long as you can still go and resurrect your high-flying career.†   (source)
  • He gave me a long look and a slow smile, then said, "I notice he waited till we busted our butts finishing up planting before staging this resurrection."†   (source)
  • It finds all its meaning in the resurrection.†   (source)
  • He passes the turnoff to CryoJeenyus, one of the smaller outfits: he'd like to have been a fly on the wall when the lights went out and two thousand frozen millionaires' heads awaiting resurrection began to melt in the dark.†   (source)
  • To atone for my ignorance, and to repay her father and her house for their great contributions to the kingdom, I would like to take this moment to announce the joining of House Calore and the resurrected House Titanos.†   (source)
  • "You're a really good poet, Ruth," she imagined me saying, and her journal would release her into a daydream of being such a good poet that her words had the power to resurrect me.†   (source)
  • Could it be, I wondered, that these children died every evening only to be resurrected by the loop, like some Sisyphean suicide cult, condemned to be blown up and stitched back together for eternity?†   (source)
  • It seemed very easy for Maxon to give me things—to resurrect a holiday for my sake, to make sure I had the best of everything—because he had the entire world at his disposal.†   (source)
  • Ang Dorje stood in the middle with his knees quaking as he tried to resurrect the bit of formal learning he had for this oral exam.†   (source)
  • That's why we're resurrecting Mr. Boogart.†   (source)
  • We will go back for Cedric and in doing so we will resurrect the world you saw, Scorpius….†   (source)
  • RESURRECTED†   (source)
  • Riders were forbidden to try to resurrect the dead, for their own safety.†   (source)
  • It was easier for the cruciform to resurrect his corpse than to tolerate such pain over a long period.†   (source)
  • I'm new at this; you're resurrecting the human in me, and everything feels stronger because it's fresh.†   (source)
  • The warmth and welcome resurrected her good spirits.†   (source)
  • His return is like a resurrection.†   (source)
  • There was a paramilitary group in Guatemala, some resurrection of the terrorizing forces of the eighties, and they had been attacking villages and taking women captive.†   (source)
  • But the damage he did came undone with the miraculous resurrection of Beloved.†   (source)
  • As far as I knew, she liked her resurrected rose-garden fence just fine.†   (source)
  • But not in the physical, bodily resurrection of Jesus.†   (source)
  • The spades and the pick chattered coldly one against the other, and Mrs. Ramage thought they would have given anyone who had seen them a proper fright — they must look like a pair of Mr. Dickens's resurrection men …. or perhaps one resurrection man sitting in a pony-trap driven by a ghost.†   (source)
  • I visited the Resurrection Cemetery, passing through the large, ornate gates, and parked.†   (source)
  • "How do you plan to spend your resurrection?" he said, as though asking about a long weekend coming up.†   (source)
  • Osiris was resurrected—but only in the Underworld.†   (source)
  • And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined.†   (source)
  • Honey, you asked me what Jesus accomplished on the cross; so now listen to me carefully: through his death and resurrection, I am now fully reconciled to the world.†   (source)
  • At the moment he's entirely unguarded and free, reveling in his own resurrection.†   (source)
  • The media had resurrected my first name, which I'd hated since grade school, stifled at the start of every school year when the teacher called roll: "It's Nick, I go by Nick!"†   (source)
  • You resurrected a monster that will only kill to feed again.†   (source)
  • Watching the performers, who spent most of their time practicing on simulators, coax notes and chords out of the relics was like witnessing a resurrection.†   (source)
  • Sonja and I thought it was interesting that when Colton said, "This one's right," he hadn't known the portrait, called Prince of Peace: The Resurrection, was painted by another child—a child who had also claimed to visit heaven.†   (source)
  • We could say that the Christian Church was founded on Easter Morning with the rumors of the resurrection of Jesus.†   (source)
  • On my third day at Mama's, instead of a resurrection, I got another crucifixion.†   (source)
  • But he is still working only a short day, and I'm guessing that the chaos after Martin's death and Harriet's resurrection is taking its toll on his strength.†   (source)
  • The other reason I made the cut is this: you just know that the resurrection pill has got to work.†   (source)
  • "It's not exactly a resurrection if I was never dead, is it?"†   (source)
  • Bonnie had resurrected her "old self"; as if serving up a preview of the normality, the regained vigor, soon to be, she had rouged her lips, fussed with her hair, and, wearing a new dress, accompanied him to the Holcomb School, where they applauded a student production of Tom Sawyer, in which Nancy played Becky Thatcher.†   (source)
  • And I have deserved peace the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I am resurrected.†   (source)
  • Miss Foley, the carnival again, the carousel run wild, the ancient Cooger mummy gasping moonlight, exhaling silver dust, dead, then resurrected in a chair where green lightning struck his skeleton alight, all of it a storm minus rain, minus thunder, and parade, the cigar store basement, the hiding, and at last them here, finished, done with the telling.†   (source)
  • You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection' for Bless my beard they aye shall be My beloved Trinity.†   (source)
  • "He is immortal," he said, "and he himself revealed the formula of his resurrection."†   (source)
  • A resurrection from the dead!†   (source)
  • But she loved the fine light of the prairie mornings; it had resurrected her spirits time after time through the years, when it seemed that dirt and cold and death would crush her.†   (source)
  • Her mother had died--neighbors said she had cried constantly after Meena disappeared, then had gone mad--but her father was stunned and thrilled to see his daughter resurrected.†   (source)
  • But for one afternoon in the spring of 1938, Seabiscuit resurrected the old Tijuana and Agua Caliente.†   (source)
  • Condor resurrected the cane and gave it to Abe, who passed it to a contact who met regularly with Atto.†   (source)
  • Larry stood with the SEALs and told them the story of the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • The resurrection part.†   (source)
  • But now, whatever she was—dead, undead, bizarrely resurrected—she was different.†   (source)
  • Then your redemption did not come through his resurrection, but through your belief in a greater purpose.†   (source)
  • The ghost town is alive and kicking like Ezekiel's resurrected valley of bones, the foot bones connected to the ankle bones, the ankle bones connected to the leg bones, and all them bones, them bones, jitterbugging in the Odd Fellows Hall, skating in the rinks, hiking and running up and down the mountainsides and the streets and paths of Slocan.†   (source)
  • My skin tingles with the chill of resurrecting each detail of the murder.†   (source)
  • For though Lestat was now miles away from us, he had in his resurrection awakened in me a tangle of complex fears which I could not escape.†   (source)
  • Marcos's heroic resurrection made everyone forget about his barrel-organ phase.†   (source)
  • He tried to remember all the soldiers, and he resurrected images of all the elderly people he had known when a child — all the aunts, uncles, neighbors, parents and grandparents, his own and everyone else's, and all the pathetic, deluded shopkeepers who opened their small, dusty stores at dawn and worked in them foolishly until midnight.†   (source)
  • The air was clear and smelled like the new white linen of the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • She awoke to a sensation of rising from underwater to be resurrected and reclaimed.†   (source)
  • And okay, so maybe he's brought something dead back to life, but if he was the Messiah he would have resurrected everyone.†   (source)
  • The word had meant, originally, a Jew educated in Judaism who denied basic tenets of his faith, like the existence of God, the revelation, the resurrection of the dead.†   (source)
  • The new version of himself had been resurrected yesterday as he endured the psychiatric evaluation.†   (source)
  • It used to be that rising from the ash after the depression cleared was like resurrection.†   (source)
  • A seed which has continued to put forth its fruit in its season as surely as if the great creator had been resurrected.†   (source)
  • Was it a resurrection of Hong Kong and Macao?†   (source)
  • Rather, he preached a sermon on the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • It was too far for Grace to walk with her taped-up leg and resurrected cane, so she went with Joe in the Chevy, ferrying the food and drink.†   (source)
  • She's convinced it's a resurrection.†   (source)
  • Only Miss Boon could delve right into academic schedules and curricula while everyone else was fretting about demonic ships and resurrected sorcerers.†   (source)
  • He stood near the improvised stage that Carter and The Vigils had erected that afternoon under Archie's direction— an old boxing ring resurrected from the bowels of the bleachers and restored to its former use except for the absence of ropes.†   (source)
  • They claimed, however, that Black English, for which they resurrected the old term Ebonics, was not a dialect of English but a separate language.†   (source)
  • I didn't have no words thought out, you know, so I jest commenced sayin' thangs I been a-thinkin' on lately — bout the Virgin Birth and Resurrection and all like thet.†   (source)
  • I wasn't entirely sure of what his deal was, but he cared enough to help bring about the resurrection of a society headed for ruin.†   (source)
  • But it shall be resurrected with stone and brick and mortar, and it promises to be a magnificent tower—tall and wide and imposing—once it is complete.†   (source)
  • Resurrection, he thought, comes not by plan or effort, and should the past ever come alive, it will be a great surprise, in which images and ritual memory will pale.†   (source)
  • The music blasted as people spilled from house to carport to backyard, where they had resurrected Mo's old tiki torches and had them glowing in the four corners.†   (source)
  • In 2012, we released Resurrection: Duckmen 16.†   (source)
  • And thus commenced the slow resurrection of a legend.†   (source)
  • So I did what any resurrected teenage boy desperate to see his soul mate would do.†   (source)
  • Until the crane arrived, that is — a colossal arm reached out of the sky to stage a resurrection.†   (source)
  • Measure hailed him, and Armor looked up with a face like as if he'd seen Jesus resurrected.†   (source)
  • At that instant she felt an immediate blessing like showering light—resurrection from the dead.†   (source)
  • ANNIE [CHEERILY]: I think God must owe me a resurrection.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, I took your advice and resurrected my old rock-hounding habits.†   (source)
  • They woke cold and coated with dew; but the resurrected fire warmed them quickly, and a breakfast of yabbies put them in good heart.†   (source)
  • Now, though, my mother had resurrected the question.†   (source)
  • Bernie was an optimist who needed proof that his philosophy of joy and the resurrection of the spirit was not the delusion of a grinning Pollyanna.†   (source)
  • It was a good feeling he had, almost as though he himself had been dead and resurrected.†   (source)
  • It did not trouble him that he could not believe, as his mother and perhaps his father did, in the literal resurrection of the dead, the virgin birth, and the rest.†   (source)
  • And then-death, the survival of consciousness, faith in resurrection … You want to know my opinion as a scientist?†   (source)
  • Christianity has enough real enemies without resurrecting ghosts.†   (source)
  • No, not by moonlight, you fool: by the Resurrection Men.†   (source)
  • He and I will hang out and have like a marathon session of Resurrection or something.†   (source)
  • I clapped him on the back and we headed back to the bedroom to play Resurrection.†   (source)
  • They might as well have resurrected Stonehenge in downtown London.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno had resurrected the Illuminati as a reminder.†   (source)
  • B-blood of the enemy …. forcibly taken …. you will…. resurrect your foe.†   (source)
  • He didn't know what resurrection project the city had been rebuilt for.†   (source)
  • Still, there were moments, like I said—resurrection gathering speed.†   (source)
  • Read up on reincarnation, transmigration, hyperspace, the resurrection of the dead and so on.†   (source)
  • " 'I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord … " my father began.†   (source)
  • And so the myth of the Resurrection was added onto the gospels.†   (source)
  • Struck dumb by Becks miraculous resurrection, Hutchison crawled outside to answer the call.†   (source)
  • Language buries, but does not resurrect.†   (source)
  • It was the sensation of being simultaneously resurrected and buried within the same breath.†   (source)
  • " 'I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord,' " said the Rev. Dudley Wiggin.†   (source)
  • Radar answered me in the disjointed way of someone playing Resurrection.†   (source)
  • The re-creation of Old Earth… the resurrection of… how many?†   (source)
  • The ancient demons had been resurrected to awaken an indifferent world.†   (source)
  • I remembered Van Houten's letter: Writing does not resurrect.†   (source)
  • But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer.†   (source)
  • Plus I bet she sucks at Resurrection," which was our favorite video game.†   (source)
  • The Core wrestles with it in the resurrection projects.†   (source)
  • Rachel clutched the teddy bear Sarai had resurrected from the attic six months earlier.†   (source)
  • He was crucified, yet he rose from the dead—he was resurrected.†   (source)
  • What's the name of the Old Earth poet they resurrected…"†   (source)
  • She looks a bit scared, as if I've just resurrected from the dead, and incompletely at that.†   (source)
  • Nico felt like a hundred skeletal butterflies were resurrecting in his stomach.†   (source)
  • He dreams of resurrecting the Riders and restoring the race of dragons.†   (source)
  • But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies.†   (source)
  • Strangely enough, we at Millennium haven't written a word about her resurrection."†   (source)
  • Love, Resurrected After more than sixty years.†   (source)
  • [Amid the desolation there are some signs of life and resurrection.†   (source)
  • Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?†   (source)
  • He told the chaplain the only thing that comforted him was the story of Christ's resurrection.†   (source)
  • "I wasn't timing my resurrection," I said.†   (source)
  • You cannot by assaulting the wage structure of a small hotel hope to resurrect the dead.†   (source)
  • I'd never taken so long to resurrect after dying in battle.†   (source)
  • The wind coming off Resurrection Bay was just as cold as she remembered.†   (source)
  • Felicia thinks of her father, of his death and resurrection, and finds it hard to concentrate.†   (source)
  • We proclaim you Death, my mother, and profess your resurrection.†   (source)
  • In some, Jesus spoke in riddles; in others, the Virgin birth and bodily resurrection were dismissed.†   (source)
  • "The resurrection pill," Inigo explained.†   (source)
  • Even in midsummer, chunks of ice swirled in Resurrection Bay.†   (source)
  • Booker Washington was resurrected today at a certain eviction in Harlem.†   (source)
  • What one person sees as a medically viable stroke of luck, another might see as a resurrection.†   (source)
  • You sound so disappointed—what did you think a resurrection pill looked like?†   (source)
  • Every morning it's resurrected alive and well."†   (source)
  • I, urn—you resurrected with incredible speed.†   (source)
  • You don't think it's possible that Mr. Smythe was …. well… resurrected?†   (source)
  • "The goats would be resurrected with that damage," he said.†   (source)
  • My backpack had apparently not been resurrected with me.†   (source)
  • Valhalla could resurrect me with a chocolate bar in my pocket, but not a sword in my hand.†   (source)
  • You chose to resurrect it, pretending to be its originator.†   (source)
  • The second line I have resurrected from the void may be a little too facile, but I have kept it.†   (source)
  • ANNIE'S VOICE [WHISPERING]: I think God must owe me a resurrection.†   (source)
  • Time to arise, time for the resurrection.†   (source)
  • And then when her mind was swimming he said, "For my next trick, I will do the resurrection.†   (source)
  • The Jeffersonian Bible was still in print today and included many of his controversial revisions, among them the removal of the virgin birth and the resurrection.†   (source)
  • As darkness spread that evening, the frogs croaked and a few newly resurrected insects buzzed about campus, and the four of us—Takumi, Lara, the Colonel, and I—walked through the cold gray light of a full moon to the Smoking Hole.†   (source)
  • Maten was seventy-three years old, a diabetic, and a deaconess at the Resurrection Mission Baptist Church.†   (source)
  • Besides— It would be awesome if we just, like, resurrected as soon as we were killed, so we could keep fighting, and— Nico, this is serious.†   (source)
  • No company came to claim it, no businessman promised a resurrection, no one knew what to do with it or what would become of all the people who'd worked there, including my mother, who lost her job at Shoe-Be-Doo-Be—two decades of kneeling and kneading, of sorting boxes and collecting moist foot hosiery, gone without ceremony.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of cars lined up on Portrero Grande Drive for miles from the church, where the bodies had lain in state, to the Resurrection Cemetery where most of the barrio dead were buried.†   (source)
  • Once I did, the system asked me if, in addition to resurrecting their avatars, I wanted to restore all of their lost items, too.†   (source)
  • Now all mankind could hope for the resurrection of the body, for it was to save us that Jesus was crucified.†   (source)
  • The Crucifixion and Resurrection come very near the spring equinox, the death of winter and beginning of renewed life.†   (source)
  • All the self-consciousness I had intermittently felt over the years, that was sometimes soothed by people's friendliness and sometimes inflamed by slights that I suspected, seemed to resurrect itself whole.†   (source)
  • A WEEK AFTER THE DISCOVERY of the doodled flower, I'd resigned myself to its insignificance—I wasn't Banzan in the meat market after all—and as the maples around campus began to hint of resurrection and the maintenance crew began mowing the grass in the dorm circle again, it seemed to me we had finally lost her.†   (source)
  • Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.†   (source)
  • His mother and Doctor Papineau turned out the lights and all was quiet and then a succession of images came forward, resurrected by some crow-eyed part of his mind that would neither wake nor sleep.†   (source)
  • PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: And your response to disappearing Hugo and Rose Granger-Weasley was to go back in time again and this time, instead of losing two people you lost a huge number of people and killed your father and in doing so you resurrected the worst wizard the world has ever known and heralded in a new age of Dark Magic.†   (source)
  • When Paul had made his speech on the Areopagos, we read in the Acts of the Apostles, some mocked him for what he said about the resurrection from the dead.†   (source)
  • Baby Kochamma's mother realized that Baby Kochamma, for no reason that she could think of, had assumed that he had meant her—and all those years later at the convent, knowing that all her letters were read by the Mother Superior before they were posted, had resurrected Koh-i-noor to communicate her troubles to her family.†   (source)
  • Anyone who takes the trouble to study the gospels can see that the bodily resurrection is a myth that was tacked onto the real story several years after the real histories were written.†   (source)
  • The no-risk bonus coupon below gives you guaranteed access to dozens of documented cases of life after death, everlasting life, previous-life experiences, posthumous life in outer space, transmigration of souls, and personalized resurrection through stream-of-consciousness computer techniques.†   (source)
  • I thought about that for a second; then I tapped the new Command icon that now appeared at the edge of my display and said, "I wish for Aech, Art3mis, and Shoto to be resurrected."†   (source)
  • And we tried to resurrect the conversation that last night as best we could for Takumi, but neither of us remembered it terribly well, partly because the Colonel was drunk and I wasn't paying attention until she brought up Truth or Dare.†   (source)
  • The crucifixion and the resurrection.†   (source)
  • Although the Christian Church believes in the "resurrection of the body and eternal life," it is by God's miracle that we are saved from death and "damnation."†   (source)
  • The early Christians had believed in the resurrection of the flesh, and they'd used the holes to literally "feed the dead" by pouring milk and honey into crypts beneath the floor.†   (source)
  • Ben came over after dinner and we played Resurrection, pausing every half hour or so to call Radar, who was on a date with Angela.†   (source)
  • In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God our brother Owen…†   (source)
  • Resurrect the ancient fear.†   (source)
  • And when I had finished, he nodded and said, "We should probably discuss this over a piping hot plate of Resurrection."†   (source)
  • "At least I'm good at Resurrection," he said, whereupon he shot me in the back even though we were playing in team mode.†   (source)
  • How does all this… Old Earth, the resurrection projects, the cybrids… how does it lead to creating the Ultimate Intelligence?†   (source)
  • For when else, if not at the death of a loved one, do we most need to hear about the resurrection, about eternal life—about him who has risen?†   (source)
  • They wanted to play Resurrection at my house, but I had to tell them no, because I was closer than I'd ever been before.†   (source)
  • " Tor as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead,' " my father said.†   (source)
  • The rest included the renegade ARNists who plied their trade by resurrecting species of plants and animals long absent from their antediluvian North American haunts, the ecology engineers, licensed primitives such as the Ogalalla Sioux or the He! l's Angel Guild, and the occasional tourist.†   (source)
  • "In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God our sister Tabitha, and we commit her body to the ground," Pastor Merrill said.†   (source)
  • "Agreed," my dad said, but after dinner, when I went back to my room and played Resurrection on mute, I could hear them talking quietly back and forth.†   (source)
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